Snipers: Battlefield saviors or sinners?
Snipers play a key role in the world’s armies. They target commanders on the opposing side and other targets with an outsize impact. Working by themselves, they can pin down a group, creating fear and...
10 Mar 201627min
Can NATO still put up a fight against Russia?
With Vladimir Putin and the United States staring at each other like the gunfighters in the final scene in the "Good, the Bad and the Ugly," War College takes a fresh look at NATO. We wanted to know w...
3 Mar 201632min
Why closing Gitmo isn't an open-and-shut case
President Barack Obama laid out a plan to close the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison this week. Even if it were to close by the time Obama leaves office, it will have been open for 15 years. So, why is...
25 Feb 201628min
Is the Syrian war partly an ad for Russian arms sales?
Russia is pulling out all the stops in showing off new weaponry — especially in Syria. Nick de Larrinaga, an expert at Jane’s Defense Weekly, joins the show and explains that the display of force is a...
18 Feb 201628min
How Garry Kasparov sees the chess match between Russia and the West
Garry Kasparov, a Russian opposition leader who was ranked as the world's best chess player for most of 20 years, has a problem with the West’s response to Vladimir Putin’s Russia and warns of the dan...
9 Feb 201616min
Surprising changes underway for Israel’s army
Israel’s defense forces are among the world’s elite. Their training methods are widely copied, actions taken by their soldiers and pilots are legendary. The Raid on Entebbe, the Six Day War, the 1981 ...
4 Feb 201630min
How hot will the Saudi-Iran conflict get?
Saudi Arabia executes a cleric who is a member of the Saudi Shi’ite minority. Iran’s government, which sees itself as the leader of the Shi’ite world, doesn’t work very hard to stop an attack on the S...
28 Jan 201625min
Oil's long good-bye and what comes next
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia has used natural gas as a weapon against Ukraine and Europe as a whole. Threatening to turn shut off the pipes as the weather turns cold is a pretty effec...
20 Jan 201626min
